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The Moor Memories Project has collected stories of moorland life and work which we want to make accessible to people.

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Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock (reference D7534) Just before the blitz we were lighting fires on the moor. If you go on T: 01629 538 347 Moor now you see a lot of holes full of water and I always E: record.office@.gov.uk remember one young lady who said “What do you need all these dew ponds for?” and I said “They’re not dew ponds, they’re bomb craters filled up with water.” Because we used these fires to decoy German Holmfirth Library and aircraft bombing Sheffield John Eardley Information Centre John Bunting T: 01484 222430 E: [email protected] The ideas behind the The project has also produced booklets, exhibitions, videos Peak Park and walks based on the John Bunting material collected. We were hoping for the freedom to walk. Mr Johnson We fought for it and some of my colleagues died fighting for that freedom and when we come back it were no different to before we went. So that were the motivation, we thought we had the right to walk on it. And at the end of the day we wanted to preserve it which we have done. Working for the Water Board Gerald Eastwood

I’d be walking round. There used to be the reservoirs and they aren’t members notice boards up, like there still is, “It’s of the fishing club, turn them out; or private, no public access” and the like anywhere on the [gathering] ground ... If Mr Johnson ... when I started work the gaffer used they haven’t no paper to say they should to say, “If there’s anybody at the side of be there, turn them out.”

I remember our Walkers’ cafes first winter here... Bill Emmingham Heather burning John Gill Ken Drabble You see you can’t go to a café now with your own sandwiches. You ...the farmer next door came out could in the past. Alport Castles Actually, if you had a very good they were for shooters to go from one one day and the snow had drifted where we used to go with old Bert Youlgreave, there were a cyclist’s gamekeeper, and there were some set of butts to another set of butts. up to the wall, it was feet deep, you Ward, we used to go there and have café. Villages had them, more than exceptional men, they always hid fire could hardly see the top of the wall. us sandwiches. Mrs Lancaster’s at one. It’s totally changed now, it’s breaks in the heather because burning He was walking up and down on top Castleton, you could always have your business, everything works for patterns was habitat for the grouse. And of the wall and he had a long rod… sandwiches in there and a pot of tea, money, whereas we didn’t have that so if you had a swathe which was burned he was feeling down with this probe just at the bottom of Cave Dale. problem, we had no money and out, that was a fire break should the and he had a sheep dog with him. everbody that were doing anything rest get on fire ... so management of the The sheep dog was sniffing and they There used to be one at Owler Bar, like cafes or whatever they were moors is all in with it yeah. In fact the [were] trying to find sheep which had the Curlew, all over place there doing it because they enjoyed your big dykes that you see, Black Dyke and been buried in the snow. whatever, the’re not dykes for fire really, were cafes, Alport, near company.

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Moor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak Innovation Moor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak Innovation Moor Memories is funded by: The Heritage Lottery Fund, the Peak District National Park Authority, English Heritage, East Peak Innovation Partnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers. Partnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers. Partnership, South Pennine LEADER, the National Trust, United Utilities and the Sheffield Ramblers.